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A cloud of faithful witnesses, leading to the heavenly Canaan, or, A commentary upon…A cloud of faithfull witnesses, leading to the heauenly Canaan, or, A commentarie vpon…
A cloud of faithful witnesses, leading to the heavenly Canaan, or, A commentary upon the 11 chapter to the Hebrews preached in Cambridge by that godly, and judicious divine, M. William Perkins ; long expected and desired, and therefore published at the request of his executors, by Will. Crashawe and Tho. Pierson, preachers of Gods Word, who heard him preach it, and wrote it from his mouth.A cloud of faithfull witnesses, leading to the heauenly Canaan, or, A commentarie vpon the 11 chapter to the Hebrewes preached in Cambridge by that godly, and iudicious divine, M. William Perkins ; long expected and desired, and therefore published at the request of his executours, by Will. Crashawe and Tho. Pierson, preachers of Gods Word, who heard him preach it, and wrote it from his mouth.
London: printed by Humphrey Lownes for Leo. Greene, 1607London: printed by Humfrey Lownes for Leo. Greene, 1607
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Thirdly, we must have a serious care and endeavour to please God: for, all the earth is his, and we are but sojourners in his sight; therefore as the Pilgrim is careful to please the Lord of the Country, by whose leave he travels through it: so must we be to please the Lord; seeing as God saith, Levit. 25.23. The land is his, and we are but strangers and sojourners with him.
Thirdly, wee must haue a serious care and endeuour to please God: for, all the earth is his, and wee are but soiourners in his sight; therfore as the Pilgrime is carefull to please the Lord of the Country, by whose leaue he trauels through it: so must we be to please the Lord; seeing as God saith, Leuit. 25.23. The land is his, and we are but strangers and soiourners with him.
And hereunto add a fourth, which is near a-kin unto it: We must cast all our care on God, seeing that he is Lord of the earth, & we are but Pilgrims and Sojourners. David saith, Psal. 24.1. The earth is the Lords, and all that therein is: The same David confesseth, Psal. 39.12, He is a stranger before God, & a sojourner as all his Fathers were, & thereupon desireth God to hear his prayer, hearken to his cry, & not to keep silence at his tears▪ as though he had said, Inasmuch as I sojourn with thee, thou art to hear my complaint. For, as a Sojourner cares, nor looks for nothing, but depends on them for all things with whom he sojourns: so must we cast all our care on God; for he careth for us, he is our Landlord, we are his Farmers, and Tenants, we hold the earth from him, ⟨p. 207⟩by no lease for years, but at his will, and it is lent us: let us therefore but have care to please this our Landlord, and care for nothing.